"Every moment is born from the death of another...
You suffer because you hold on to each moment, and do not experience the death of the moment...
The universe isn't static...
You have to keep dying to the past...
When you do that,
you will experience the joy in the impermanence too!!"
Gratitude is an elixir for the soul. It deeply nourishes us on any day and is especially healing through transitions. The equinox is a perfect time to practice by saying ‘thank you and goodnight’ to the earth, as she starts her slumber into winter and begins her rejuvenation. She has offered so much of herself – support, beauty, food, and wellbeing.
Read MoreI have been leading Restorative Therapeutic Yoga Teacher Trainings across the country since 2001. Sixteen years later, it is amazing to see these healing styles of yoga being offered everywhere. Popular Magazines are featuring Restorative practices, celebrities are promoting it, and Alignyo Magazine noted “Restorative is the new Power yoga.”
Read MoreDetoxing in the fall may sound counterintuitive. After all, spring—Ayurveda’s other optimal time to detox—is our cultural cleaning season, whereas autumn feels like a time to hunker down and get back to work.
“In the spring, it’s about shaking off the weight of winter and getting revved up for summer, and we’re good at that,” says Ayurvedic consultant Scott Blossom.
Read MoreFor me, September has always felt profound in this way, offering both a time for change and reconnection; good-bye and hello; transition and transformation. It is the ultimate time to pause. In fact, nature uses a big pause right now - between the expansion of summer and contraction of winter, she provides us with a moment of balance – the Autumn Equinox.
Read MoreI have been leading an Autumn Weekend Retreat in the Berkshire Mountains since 2000. This retreat is one of my favorites! With out fail– in only a weekend – you will feel completely re-centered and re-connected with yourself. Year after year this trip is known to send you home – no matter how you arrived- with a deep sense of renewal, gratitude, and inspiration. I can’t wait to share it with you again this year!
Read MoreThere is a new generation of gratitude researchers out there who are examining the health effects of gratitude. Some of the findings are really amazing.
The Expanding the Science and Practice of Gratitude program, a collaboration between UC Davis and the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, which studies the the psychology, sociology and neuroscience of well-being published research that shows, "when we think about someone or something we really appreciate and experience the feeling that goes with the thought, the parasympathetic (calming-branch) of the autonomic nervous system is triggered.
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